Evolution category: 1570 books
Die Steinzeit steckt uns in den Knochen
Gesundheit als Erbe der Evolution
Language: German
Release Date: May 11, 2015
Unsere Körper sind Meisterwerke der Natur. Aber sie sind nicht perfekt. Wir sind der lebende Kompromiss aus unseren evolutionären Vorgängern, den Affen, Amphibien, Fischen. Seit der Steinzeit hat sich unser Körper kaum mehr verändert und passt nun nicht mehr so recht zum modernen Leben. Die Folge...
Life Finds a Way
What Evolution Teaches Us About Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
How the principles of biological innovation can help us overcome creative challenges in art, business, and science
In Life Finds a Way, biologist Andreas Wagner reveals the deep symmetry between innovation in biological evolution and human cultural creativity. Rarely is either a linear climb...
The Edge of Evolution
Animality, Inhumanity, and Doctor Moreau
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
In this interdisciplinary work, author Ron Edwards offers an innovative rereading of H. G. Wells' "The Island of Dr. Moreau." Edwards utilizes his twenty-five years in biology and the ethics of animal research to examine the bioethical implications of Wells' work and its relevance to contemporary...
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Language: German
Release Date: September 9, 2010
Language: German
Release Date: September 9, 2010
Gut 150 Jahren sind vergangen, seit Darwin sein Werk „Die Entstehung der Arten“ geschrieben hat. Das Evolutionsparadigma hat inzwischen als erfolgreicher Forschungsansatz dazu beigetragen, u. a. psychologische, soziale, ethische, ästhetische oder auch politische Fragen zu klären. Namhafte Natur-...
Adaptation and Natural Selection
A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Biological evolution is a fact—but the many conflicting theories of evolution remain controversial even today. When Adaptation and Natural Selection was first published in 1966, it struck a powerful blow against those who argued for the concept of group selection—the idea that evolution acts to...
by Ralf Bub
Language: German
Release Date: September 7, 2006
Language: German
Release Date: September 7, 2006
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2001 im Fachbereich Biologie - Evolution, Note: 1,0, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (Institut für Informatik und Gesellschaft Abteilung für Kognitionswissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Einführung in die Kognitionswissenschaft, 4 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache:...
Evolution's Captain
NF abt Capt. FitzRoy & Chas Darwin
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
This is the story of the man without whom the name Charles Darwin might be unknown to us today. That man was Captain Robert FitzRoy, who invited the 22-year-old Darwin to be his companion on board the Beagle .
This is the remarkable story of how a misguided decision by Robert FitzRoy, captain...
Charles Darwin
The Power of Place
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
In 1858 Charles Darwin was forty-nine years old, a gentleman scientist living quietly at Down House in the Kent countryside, respected by fellow biologists and well liked among his wide and distinguished circle of acquaintances. He was not yet a focus of debate; his “big book on species” still...
by James T. Costa
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
“If you’ve ever fantasized walking and conversing with the great scientist on the subjects that consumed him, and now wish to add the fullness of reality, read this book.” —Edward O. Wilson, author of Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life
James T. Costa takes readers on a journey...
Once We All Had Gills
Growing Up Evolutionist in an Evolving World
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
In this book, Rudolf A. Raff reaches out to the scientifically queasy, using his life story and his growth as a scientist to illustrate why science matters, especially at a time when many Americans are both suspicious of science and hostile to scientific ways of thinking. Noting that science has too...
Survival of the Sickest
The Surprising Connections Between Disease and Longevity
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Read it.
You're already living it.
Was diabetes evolution's response to the last Ice Age? Did a deadly genetic disease help our ancestors survive the bubonic plagues of Europe? Will a visit to the tanning salon help lower your cholesterol? Why do we age? Why are some people immune to...
Science in the Soul
Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The legendary biologist and bestselling author mounts a timely and passionate defense of science and clear thinking with this career-spanning collection of essays, including twenty pieces published in the United States for the first time.
For decades, Richard Dawkins...
Nonzero
The Logic of Human Destiny
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2001
In his bestselling The Moral Animal, Robert Wright applied the principles of evolutionary biology to the study of the human mind. Now Wright attempts something even more ambitious: explaining the direction of evolution and human history–and discerning where history will lead us next.
In Nonzero:...
Lucy's Legacy
The Quest for Human Origins
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
“Lucy is a 3.2-million-year-old skeleton who has become the spokeswoman for human evolution. She is perhaps the best known and most studied fossil hominid of the twentieth century, the benchmark by which other discoveries of human ancestors are judged.”*–*From Lucy’s Legacy
In his New...